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  <title>Deep Blue</title>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:38:34 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Edumacation</title>
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  <description>So, first night of class the previous evening. Communications 1201 (&amp;quot;Public Speaking&amp;quot;) and Math 97 (&amp;quot;Beginning Algebra [AKA &amp;quot;Algebra for Dummies])&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wasn&apos;t too bad, considering I&apos;ve been away from class for the last 10 years. I&apos;m stll having some number panic from havng to go to a math class, but I think I can survive. Pre-calc...I&apos;m not so sure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I picked up my books today at lunch, for the tune of my first born child. Skimmed through them both and went through the first chapter for speech. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Otherwise, not much to report.</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:18:25 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Fox tales</title>
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  <description>This is why you shold NEVER try and collect a &amp;quot;sounvineer&amp;quot; from your roadkill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theleafchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008810060325&quot;&gt;www.theleafchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:40:12 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Not so friendly politics</title>
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  <description>I&apos;m going to put this under a cut since it is going to be at its best a rant, and at the worst a very angry post. It&apos;s Monday morning and I don&apos;t have time for BS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Alrighty, I&apos;m getting fully and completely pissed off at people here using the election year to make personal attacks at other people. Just because someone doesn&apos;t support the same candidate as you do, do NOT mean they are some level of retard only worthy of the highest level of contempt you can manage. I&apos;ve long grown sick of people trying to say I don&apos;t, to paraphrase, understand the constitution, know my rights, etc... I will not be treated like a second class citizen because you all feel some sort of superiority that you think&amp;nbsp; can only be bestowed upon you by some politician making promises they may not be able to keep, and the mainstream media shoveling bullshit into your muzzle with a backhoe. Let me remind you: Media coverage and information is ALWAYS going to be tainted by a personal, editorial, or corporate-wide slant to favor who they&apos;re supposed to.&amp;nbsp; Go off facts and past record or something better than peoples opinion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second part to this is: I&amp;nbsp;WILL&amp;nbsp;NOT, let me repeat that *NOT* let anyone here or else where talk down to me, or insult my intelligence. That is one of my basic principals. No one is immune to this. Friends, family, mates, my boss, the family dog, whoever. It just won&apos;t happen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, that said I&apos;m going to end this. I&apos;ve said my piece and may or may not end up pruning my list somewhat to avoid further problems with people. Comments will remain open for now unless it becomes a problem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Cobalt-&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:53:35 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Dark corners of the mind</title>
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  <description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Verdana&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;Friedrich Nietzsche&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I finished another short story yesterday from the minor collection of horror peieces I&apos;ve been working at off and on now. It&apos;s another vaguely &amp;quot;true horror&amp;quot; kind of story. (For what I mean by this see my eariler entry &amp;quot;Horrorshow&amp;quot;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&apos;s about a guy wgo takes a VERY wrong turn while driving in backwoods Georgia. The main character is one of those &amp;quot;protagonist/antagonist&amp;quot; types. The kind who is a real bastard, and you aren&apos;t supposed to feel sorry for when something awful happens to him; but when he&apos;s put up against the other characters in the story he&apos;s practicly a saint.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway. After putting a lot of work in my novel, it was nice to take a break and actualy get a piece *finished.*&amp;nbsp; I&apos;ve now gotten two stories from this project done. I think I&apos;m going to put them up for peer review on my writers community forums and get some feedback from the group on them. After that, I think I want to try submitting it to a few magazine and e-zines for publication. I saw a few that even pay for work. Woulned&apos;t that be nice? Heck, one or two of them even comple selected stories into books once or twice a year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&apos;s probably a bit of a pipe dream, but I want to get my feet wet at the publication process. See how it works really. If anything I&apos;l probably end up throwing it up here at some point assuming I can make it fit. (It&apos;s currently nine pages and over 5000 words. Not long for a short story, but massive for a web post.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hereby release you all back to your regularly scheduled reality.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <lj:music>Coldplay--&quot;Viva la Vida&quot;</lj:music>
  <media:title type="plain">Coldplay--&quot;Viva la Vida&quot;</media:title>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:53:25 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Announcement: Six Flag White Water</title>
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  <description>I know this is coming a bit late for some people but I&apos;m just throwing it out there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m arranging a trip with some of the local furs to go to &lt;b&gt;6 Flags over Georgia--White Water&lt;/b&gt; Water park. If you would like to come join us, here&apos;s the scoop:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We will be meeting in the parking lot at the main ticket counter at &lt;b&gt;10:00 AM, This Sunday .&lt;/b&gt; (August 17th)&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;Directions to the park as well as all the other fun details can be found at the website &lt;a&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cost is 29.99 at the gate. You can get discount tickets at your local Publix grocery store. Please remember to bring your own gear, adn that the park is family friendly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you have questions, leave a comment of send me an email on the Atlanta FLORA or ARF lists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the event of rain we will stand in the parking lot until we are all sufficantly wet. (kidding)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope to see everyone there&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Cobalt-</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:06:25 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Open a vein</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Georgia&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.&quot; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;E.L. Doctorow &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;The sports collumnest Walter Wellesly &quot;Red&quot; Smith once said writing is easy. All you have to do is &quot;sit down and open a vein.&quot; (Emo sports writers ftw, right?) If that&apos;s the case, I&apos;ve bled all over my book. Err...not like that, okay?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ANYWAY! I finaly got chapter eight done in my book, finisheing off part three with it. I&apos;m really happy with the progress that I&apos;m making lately. I&apos;ve been trying to give myself regular time to write and review what I&apos;ve done. I like how the plot is coming along although I wonder if I took to long to get to what *I* considered to be the central plot elements. On the other paw, from the standpoint of a reader, it might simply seem like what the book revolves around is different from what I think it&apos;s about. I&apos;ve done a lot of reworkig over time on the outline that I work off of, and I feel like if I took anything out of the book it certainly wouldn&apos;t be the same story.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m glad to be back on making regular progress in this, because for a while it was feeling like the year my book takes place in (2035) would be long passed by the time the story&amp;nbsp;is in print.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m just down to the part of reading it myself, having someone else read it, and then making any changes I think that it needs. Then i can sit down with the outline for the next chapter and refine that as it works in. Then, down to part three, chapter nine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*sharpens pencils*&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <lj:music>&quot;Noyana&quot;--Lebo M. and the S. African Choir</lj:music>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:41:23 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Read this</title>
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  <description>&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;#39;Times New Roman&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;Okay, so since &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #0000cc; FONT-FAMILY: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;#39;Times New Roman&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://foxxdamone.livejournal.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: blue; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt&quot;&gt;foxxdamone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;#39;Times New Roman&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;is busy doing his daily rants I need to interject and put in a few of my&amp;nbsp;own:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First one: TL;DR&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I *HATE* people who do that shit! You&apos;re telling me you are so lazy that you can&apos;t read something? I actually saw this once posted below someone who had posted no more than&amp;nbsp;three lines of text&amp;nbsp;on a forum. What the hell?! These are the same people who proudly announce &quot;i don&apos;t read books.&quot; I have a co-worker like that and he is really quite proud of the fact that he doesn’t read anything more than a single paragraph.&amp;nbsp;Furthermore, if you can&apos;t bother to read what was written, then DON&apos;T COMMENT. It&apos;s simple. There’s no reason to say &quot;I don&apos;t bother to read things because it&amp;nbsp;had more than five sentences in it.&quot; If that&apos;s too much for your brain to handle, then crawl back in your cave and go look at your coloring books.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can understand the whole &quot;wall o&apos; text&apos; thing, where people use no punctuation, line breaks or paragraphs to break up&amp;nbsp;an article of three pages. That&apos;s fine. That gives me a headache to read. &amp;nbsp;But the ones where someone writes something that is easy to follow, and in many cases not more then one or two paragraphs, and you see below it, &quot;tl;dr&quot; makes me want to hit them with a dictionary.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;#39;Times New Roman&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;#39;Times New Roman&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;Second one: The Large Hadron Collider&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;ll keep this simple for the reason that I could otherwise be going into a lot of physics and I&apos;d inevitably end up with a lot of confused critters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE WORLD IS NOT GOING TO END TOMORROW (at least not from the LHC)&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just because some moron in the media who has no idea what is going on says that a black hole is going to suck up the earth, dose not mean that it&apos;s true. My suggestion: read up on physics, and what the LHC is and will be looking for and maybe people will stop text-screaming at me that the the world is going to be sucked into an alternate dimension, and we&apos;ll all be made into slaves for our alien overlords by next Monday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Science. You&apos;re doin&apos; it wrong.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;#39;Times New Roman&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;Thank you, that is all for now. I&apos;m going to go take an aspirin and relax for now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comments are screened.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:28:47 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Here kitty, kitty...</title>
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  <description>So I was looking through the music I imported to my workstation at work today and I noticed I have a number of songs&amp;nbsp;involving cats in the title:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;65daysofstatic-- &quot;This&amp;nbsp;Cat is a Landmine&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bush-- &quot;The Disease of the Dancing Cats.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blaqk Audio-- &quot;Stiff Kittens&quot;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interestingly, none of these songs have anythign to do with cats. The first one is an instumental piece, the second one is a kind of antiestablishment/enviromentalist/protest kind of song, and the third is just...I&apos;m not sure how to describe the third one.&amp;nbsp; Defenatly dosen&apos;t make you think of cats.</description>
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  <lj:music>Bon Jovi--&quot;It&apos;s My Life.&quot;</lj:music>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:07:06 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Too bad. I&apos;ll miss the cheese.</title>
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  <description>So I was looking for an email that I thought might have gotten caught in my gmail spam fileter, adn came across an odd looking email header:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Switserland&lt;font face=&quot;Calibri&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt; to be devoured by black hole.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That&apos;s one of the most specific black holes I&apos;ve ever&amp;nbsp;heard of.&amp;nbsp;</description>
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  <lj:music> 65daysofstatic--&quot;When We Were Younger and Better&quot;</lj:music>
  <media:title type="plain"> 65daysofstatic--&quot;When We Were Younger and Better&quot;</media:title>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:40:57 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Writer&apos;s Block: Cramming Yourself into a Sentence</title>
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Short answer:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am my own person.</description>
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  <lj:music>Angels and Airwaves- &quot;Do It For Me Now&quot;</lj:music>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:31:05 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>S-M-R-T: Smart</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;It sounds like I&apos;m going to be going back to College soon. I was originaly going to wait until I had my credit card debt paid off, but I was starting to come to the conclusion that it was just another in a long line of excuses as to why I wasn&apos;t back in school yet.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of my co-workers in going to be majoring in Nursing at the same school and we&apos;re going to try and take classes together so we can work on the course. I&apos;m going to be trying to knock out about 2 of my coure requirements for spring semester of &apos;09 (Earliest classes I can register for.) I&apos;ll probably do my Math and Chemistry ones first, since their my weakest subjects from when I was in school the last time. I&apos;m afraind of what the Math class is going to be like, since I suck so hard at math. I&apos;m one of those people that neds a calculator for 1+1=3. I have roughly 2 years of core work to handle befor I can apply for my formal nursing school, and I&apos;ve got to make it look good so i can place well. I get the feeling that this second chance might be my last one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I filled out my application for Georgia Perimeter College yesterday, and I&apos;m going to see the guidance counsler tomorrow after work. I still need to get one of my parents to go to my old High School in Mighigan to have a copy opf my sealed transcripts sent down here, and a bunch of other fun stuff, including my immunization records and transcripts from when&amp;nbsp;I was in paramedic school. Plus, all my forms for finacial aid. There&apos;s a few Grants I think I can get, but they&apos;re for when I actualy get into Nursing school. I know of one in particular for Georgia Paramedics trying to study Nursing, but I have to find out more about it. For now, I&apos;m tryiong to figure out financing for general classes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;ll have more updates probably once I talk to the counsler, and know wher I need to go from here.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <lj:music>BigBlueFox-&quot;Lord of the Mix p.3&quot;</lj:music>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 19:44:59 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Technophile</title>
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  <description>Well, while all the&amp;nbsp;&quot;normal&quot; people were out&amp;nbsp;BBQ&apos;ing, and all the fandom was at the Cons I decided to be diffrent and&amp;nbsp;get the computer&amp;nbsp;parts with my stim. check.&amp;nbsp;It&apos;s a pretty significant upgrade for my desktop. Not the supercomputer I know some people have, but I was working on a budget and had to do some careful shopping around, but I was able to do it. /cheer!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Heres the goods:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CPU: AMD 64x2 5600+, 2.8 Ghz&lt;br /&gt;Motherboard: MSI K9N V2.0 SLI-ready&lt;br /&gt;GPU: nVidia 9600 OC 512MB DDR3, SLI Ready&lt;br /&gt;2 Gigs DDR2 (DDR800&amp;nbsp;) RAM&lt;br /&gt;and a new 500 GB SATA HDD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m going to put it all together tonight. I have some reservations about how it&apos;s going to go, but I think I can do it. Most of my concers are about the BIOS stuff, and getting it at least able to be booted from Windows. Once that&apos;s all set, I think I can handle everything else just fine. If not, I know where I can find help.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here&apos;s to hope, technology and the geekdom!</description>
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  <category>computer</category>
  <lj:music>&quot;Another Code Against the Gone&quot;-- 65daysofstatic</lj:music>
  <media:title type="plain">&quot;Another Code Against the Gone&quot;-- 65daysofstatic</media:title>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 19:05:13 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Yay for jumping on the bandwagon, right?</title>
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  <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.klisoura.com/furrypoll.php&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.klisoura.com/images/survey/fsgfc1.png&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;survey banner&quot; title=&quot;Furry Survey. Be Counted.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:21:33 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>April One</title>
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  <description>So, it&apos;s&amp;nbsp;April&amp;nbsp;1st. Infamous April fools day. How&apos;s everyone doing out there? It&apos;s beautiful out here in Atlanta. Sunny, in the 70&apos;s. I had lunch outside at work at this little forgotten&amp;nbsp;marble table out behind the office.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I got&amp;nbsp;a belated birthday gift from my sister in California. It&apos;s a big tiger plushie. Very nice. I like it and judging by the fact that&amp;nbsp;my cat was snuggled up to it when I left for work,&amp;nbsp;I think he does too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The April Fool&apos;s Day Rundown-&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;So far today:&lt;br /&gt;-Saw that Gmail is offering the ability to &lt;a href=&quot;http://mail.google.com&quot;&gt;turn back time on emails&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;-My avatar on the World of Warcraft forums has been transformed into a Rather Large Bear, along with some odd &quot;lol&apos;s&quot; appearing in my posts.&lt;br /&gt;-Got Rickrolled on youtube.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All together nothing too bad, most of it was rather amusing. To go along with it, I also finaly got the chance to see Avenue Q at the Fox in Atlanta this past Sunday. That is some realy demented humor. I loved it. :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, lunch break is over, back to werk!</description>
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  <lj:mood>amused</lj:mood>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:49:25 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Horrorshow</title>
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  <description>&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Kill; Break me down.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;30 Seconds to Mars&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;I&apos;ve been playing a bunch of Flash adventure games. You know the kind: The mouse-clickfest puzzle types. There&apos;s been some horror themed ones I stumbled across online. I&apos;ve been doing them for some inspiration for my horror story collection Cairo and I have been putting together. I got a few ideas for what I could play with in a short story. Nothing that hasn&apos;t been done before, but that&apos;s kind of rare in the fiction world anyway. I do still think that we&apos;ve got a good colelction going, focusing around the more &quot;classic&quot; horror, instead of this &quot;psyco-killer-axe-murderer-rapist-is-in-my-house&quot; kind of thing. We&apos;re going for mkore the true supernatural stuff. Demons, sprits and the like. I know we&apos;ve both taken a lot of inspiration from H.P. Lovecraft. He&apos;s pretty well regarded as one of the great ancestors of modern day horror, and many great current authors of the genre have written things that have very heavy Lovecraftian themes. Stephen King did a few, Dean Koontz has several spots in his books that are Lovecraftian, and the Silent Hill series just reeks of his works.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, if anyone likes Graphic adventure puzzle games here&apos;s some *really* good ones to play when the lights go out...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/189227&quot;&gt;Exmortis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/303832&quot;&gt;Exmortis 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <lj:mood>Scary!</lj:mood>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:00:18 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Company Mergers</title>
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  <description>With todays fast-paced business world, a lot of companies are merging. Here&apos;s the latest in corporate mergers:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--Xerox and Wurlitzer are joining forces to make reproductive organs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--Hale Business Systems, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Fuller Brush Co. and W. R. Grace Co.:&amp;nbsp; New company will be called &quot;Hale Mary Fuller Grace.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--Honeywell, Imasco, and Home Oil:&amp;nbsp; Combining forces to become &quot;Honey, I&apos;m Home.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- Denison Mines, Alliance, and Metal Mining To now become &quot;Mine, All Mine&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--3M, J.C. Penney, Canadian Opera Company:&amp;nbsp;New company slated to be called 3 Penney Opera.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--Knott&apos;s Berry Farm &amp;amp; National Organization of Women: Joining forces to become Knott NOW!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--Zippo Manufacturing, Audi, Dofasco, Dakota Mining will now be called&amp;nbsp;&quot;Zip Audi Do-Da&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;</description>
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  <category>puns</category>
  <lj:mood>silly</lj:mood>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:07:59 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Static</title>
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  <description>&lt;div align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;This negative energy only makes me stronger...&lt;br /&gt;-65daysofstatic-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;I just got the latest &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.65daysofstatic.com&quot;&gt;65daysofstatic&lt;/a&gt; album today. OMG, musical bliss. This really is one of my favorite instrumental bands. Their new album, &quot;The Destruction of Small Ideas&quot; is beautiful. It&apos;s like having sex with music. Well...you get the point.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*purrs*&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;center&quot;&gt; &lt;/div&gt;</description>
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  <category>music</category>
  <lj:music>&quot;When we were younger and better&quot;--65dos</lj:music>
  <media:title type="plain">&quot;When we were younger and better&quot;--65dos</media:title>
  <lj:mood>happy</lj:mood>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:24:18 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Time  is on my side</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cobalt317/pic/0001wt49/&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;WIDTH: 349px; HEIGHT: 84px&quot; height=&quot;80&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cobalt317/pic/0001wt49/s320x240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was driving through Atlanta this weekend to go to see my friends Foxx and Lion. It was snowing. The first time I&apos;d seen snow since I left Michigan. I couldn&apos;t help feeling like I was back in Detroit. The moment of thinking I was somehow back home, shattered then by the realization of where home is now. It was an odd feeling, but somehow not unplesent. It made me think a lot of how things were before I moved. Some good, some bad. Like everything else. Just me in the car, driving to the persistant rhythm of my own memories. I don&apos;t get enough time to think to myself any more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Almost two years ago to the date I was driving on the interstate. I was on I-94 then instead of I-20. I was going to the Detroit Airport so I could catch a plane to Atlanta for a job interview with an ambulance company in a city I&apos;d nevr heard of called &quot;Conyers.&quot;&amp;nbsp; I&apos;d never even been to Atlanta, much less this city, and I had to keep catching myself to think that I was considering moving there on nothing more then the reccomendation of some friends.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the interview I was goig to drive to Huntsville&amp;nbsp;meet a friend by the nickname &quot;WhiteLion&quot; whom I&apos;d talked to quite a bit with online. We were excited about meeting eachother for the first time, but I didn&apos;t know what to expect fromt here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There was snow on the ground. I had a CD in my car, playing Pffandorf&apos;s &quot;Be Cool&quot; as I drove.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This weekend and that time were so much alike. Going to see the same friends, snow on the ground just like last time. The only thing that was diffrent this time was time itself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And where I called home...&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <lj:music>Pffandorf--Be Cool</lj:music>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:25:46 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>My arms are stiff</title>
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  <description>So, I&apos;m on the phone with a patient this afternoon. We have paitents wear a pair of bracelets that sort of look like watchbands, and have electrodes attached to them so we can do their heart monitoring tests. My patient apparently has them on too lose so I ask her to tighten them up. Here&apos;s what follows:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Me: Ma&apos;am, can you push the armbands up your arms, towards your elbows.&lt;br /&gt;Patient: I don&apos;t think I have those on.&lt;br /&gt;Me: What&apos;s that ma&apos;am?&lt;br /&gt;Patient: My elbows...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Talk about stiff joints, huh?</description>
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  <category>lulz</category>
  <lj:mood>amused</lj:mood>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:22:02 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>I can has HTML Helps?</title>
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  <description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Okay, so as I mentioned briefly in last nights post, I was having trouble with the rich text editor for LJ, and wrote everything in HTML. Not sure how many people noticed the double spacing in the quote at the top of my post, but I went back today to look at my code to try and figure out why it did that. I can&apos;t seem to figure it out. LJ seems to be treating my &amp;lt;&quot;br&quot;&amp;gt; tags like they were &amp;lt;&quot;p&quot;&amp;gt; tags and adding the extra space. Here&apos;s the thing though. &lt;b&gt; It&apos;s only on here.&lt;/b&gt; When i went back and loaded the code into a notepad document to troubleshoot it, it makes the line breaks work properly. Does anyone know why LJ does this? I thought I did the coding right. I even tried to make sure I was following the HTML 4.0 guidelines when doing that. Here&apos;s the code below. Replace the [ and ] with angle brackets where needed (Done so that LJ won&apos;t try to read the text below as HTML.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[html]&lt;br /&gt;[body]&lt;br /&gt;[p align=&quot;center&quot;]&quot;We&apos;re so miserable and stunning;[br]&lt;br /&gt;Songs for the desperately cunning&quot;[br]&lt;br /&gt;-Fall Out Boy-[/p]</description>
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  <category>website</category>
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  <lj:mood>geeky</lj:mood>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:51:19 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp &amp;nbsp &amp;nbsp &amp;nbsp &amp;nbsp &amp;nbsp &amp;nbsp &amp;nbsp &amp;nbsp &amp;nbsp We&apos;re so miserable and stunning;&lt;br&gt;
Songs for the desperately cunning&quot;&lt;br&gt;
-Fall Out Boy-&lt;/p&gt;
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Work as usual today. Notning much exciting. My weekend was pretty good. Foxx, WhiteLion and I all went to a friends place out here on the est side near where I live for a open-house party that they throw every year. It was pretty good, and it was nice to see my friend and her family again. My dad showed up unexpectedly Sunday, so I scrapped plans with my friends so i could see him. He ended up staying at my place. It was really kind of short notice, but still nice to see him.
&lt;p&gt;I had a quiet afternoon at work today so I posted on &lt;a href=&quot;http://z15.invisionfree.com/Writers_Island/index.php&quot;&gt;my website&lt;/a&gt; to continue an RP I&apos;ve been in. It&apos;s been off and on for a long time, but we&apos;re getting it rolling again. I wasn&apos;t sure how much i felt like writing, but once I got going my muse, or whatever you want to call it got me going with a nice, lengthy post that I think carried on the storyline nicely. I have to figure out what I&apos;m doing with all the current stuff on the forum once we move over to our new network provider and the site gets rebuilt. Invisionfree I&apos;ve heard is a real pain when it comes to transferring large amounts of data off-site. Oh well. I can worry about that when the time comes.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tomorrow is going to be pretty ugly at the office. Our computers glitched and put three days worth of patients into one day, so I&apos;ll be here practically forever. THEN I get to get up early on Wednesday for a class I need for my Paramedic licence. Whee. There&apos;s not going to be any Fursuit bowling for me this month. :( &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Other then that, not much to say. I&apos;m having to write this all &quot;long hand&quot; since LJ&apos;s Rich Text Editing seems to be screwing up again. I have to do this post in HTML. Good thing I remember enough of it from my college days to manage. Please excuse any stray tags seen running underfoot.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Let me see...what else, what else? Oooh! I know! I&apos;ve joined the ranks of the &quot;Bluetooth Asshole Brigade.&quot; You know, the people who walk around with heir Bluetooth headsets on all the time, like it&apos;s giving them vital instructions or something? I figure now that that it&apos;s safe to start talking to myself. People will just think that I&apos;m not the phone, not schizophrenic like they used to.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hope the week treats everyone well. I&apos;ll be thinking of y&apos;all while my brain is being edumacated.
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  <category>life</category>
  <lj:music>The Carpal Tunnel of Love-Fall Out Boy</lj:music>
  <media:title type="plain">The Carpal Tunnel of Love-Fall Out Boy</media:title>
  <lj:mood>good</lj:mood>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:17:52 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Out of my mind, be back in 5 minutes</title>
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  <description>&amp;nbsp;Oh man I want out fo the office reeeealy badly tonight.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I GOTTA GET OUT OF HERE! THE CUBICLE IS CLOSING IN ON ME! IT&apos;S NOT RIGHT TO CAGE A WILD ANIMAL!!!</description>
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  <lj:mood>stir crazy</lj:mood>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:38:43 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Christmas Sucks! (Literaly)</title>
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  <description>&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;Well fuzzballs, hope everyone had a good Christmas. From what I&apos;ve seen of entries it looked enjoyable for the majority. This is probably the most domestic sounding post you&apos;ll get from me until this decade ends, so enjoy!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I got some nice stuff, including a picture from my mom that&apos;s just full of win. It&apos;s a collage of extreme close-ups of large cat faces, centered on the eyes. Looks really awesome. I&apos;ve got to get some heavy weight wall hangers this weekend to put it up.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Also, I finally got one of those Bissel SpotBot rug cleaners that I&apos;ve been needing for my carpet to clean up after my cat&apos;s little...&quot;indiscretions&quot; on the rug. Of course, this means I have to vacuum the apartment, which hasn&apos;t been done almost since I moved in just after AC of &apos;07, when the vacuum I had died.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Luckily, one of the other things I got was a gift certificate to Bed Bath and Beyond.&amp;nbsp; (Wasn&apos;t that a movie about living quarters in space?)&lt;br /&gt; I put in some research on the interwebz, and found one I liked. The store I went to didn&apos;t have a &quot;new&quot; model of the one I was looking for, but they had a display model of the Dirt Devil I wanted. The clerk said I could have that one for a discount. Discounts are good. I put that together and the gift card and made out with a $200 vacuum for less then $75 out of pocket.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I was wondering how well it&apos;d work, and decided to try and clean part of the living room at 10:30 at night. The neighbors sleep too much anyway.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Dang, I thought this thing was going to suck the rug off the floor. It&apos;s one of those cyclone deals like the Dysons have. Given how powerful this thing was I&apos;m almost thinking that it&apos;s got some sort of black hole generator in it someplace. You&apos;ve heard people say the got so much pet hair off the rung they could knit themselves another cat? I could have probably made two or three additional ones. Maybe I&apos;ll use what I cleaned out of the carpet and make myself a fursuit with it. It&apos;ll look very realistic.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; So, now the place is all clean, and my allergies are better too. I&apos;ve got to start working on the other rooms, in accordance with my New Years Resolution to get the apartment cleaned up. Once I pick everything up I can finish the place off, and then go back to being lazy and unproductive.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I&apos;ve started chewing gum obsessively again. Not sure if I&apos;m nervous about something, or just being neurotic.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 23:05:08 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Less then a week until Christmas, and once again I&apos;m ready to go home and sleep untill the entire season is over with. I&apos;ve pretty well had it with people have, smart-assed, rude, or downright uncalled for behavior this past week and a half. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;were it not for the fact that it sounds so paranoid, I&apos;d almost go so far as to say that it seems like people just want to make my life difficult lately. Some particular observations over the past few days. (Kept purposly vuage for reasons of not pointing fingers) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) If you&apos;re going to have an answering service, then LET PEOPLE LEAVE MESSAGES! Don&apos;t wait for calls for patients with potentialy serious cardiac problems then tell me &quot;You&apos;ll have to call back during regualr business hours.&quot; That dosen&apos;t help anyone. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2)When sending personal comminications to others, either peers or subordinates in your community, have a little tact, huh? Being snappy with me isn&apos;t a good way to get on my good size. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-on a semi-related note- &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) Don&apos;t be a hyppocryte. Don&apos;t come talking to me about about what&apos;s fair when you aren&apos;t willing to be fair yourself. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4) I am not here to be your personal teddy-bear for you to come cry to when thigns go bad, then forgotten about in fair times. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&apos;s cold, and the sky looks like a slate right now but it&apos;s not raining like we need it to. I&apos;d rather it just let loose so we don&apos;t have to start getting all our water from the grocery store in bottles soon. I&apos;m alone in the office, stewing in my own thoughs, which probably isn&apos;t good for me to be doing right now anyway, and I want to go to bed untill at leasrt the 26th of the month. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because of the way things are going right now I&apos;ll be taking a break from my forums and online appearances until further notice. This includes &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.furtopia.org&quot;&gt;furtopia.org&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pridelands.org&quot;&gt;Savannah&lt;/a&gt;. Hopefully when I return things are...better there. I&apos;ll still be available on &lt;a href=&quot;http://z15.invisionfree.com/Writers_Island/index.php&quot;&gt;Writers Island&lt;/a&gt;, but that&apos;s mpore because I run the place and it&apos;s getting ready to be moved and rebuilt. If anyone here is on that site and needs help with something, plase contact a moderator.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;ll be hiding under the covers with my cat untill this all passes.</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:54:58 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>I think we saw that coming a mile off.</title>
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  <description>I&apos;d say I stole this meme from someone specific, but I&apos;ve seen so many of them I&apos;ll not even pretend it was an original idea. :p&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1&gt;Your Score: &lt;span&gt;The Cat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;You scored 55% domestic, 33% gregarious, 14% trickster, and 73% intellect!&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://panther.is1.okcimg.com/users/284/800/2858006220538758619/mt764496626.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Domestic, Solitary, Serious, Intelectual: you are the Cat! Cat represents a balance of strength in both physical and spiritual, psychic and sensual powers, merging these two worlds into one. Curious, intelligent, and physically adept, cat people tend to live in a world all their own.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This test categorized you based on four different axes of personality, which were then associated with a different animal. The four axes, as well as all possible results are explained below.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Wild/Domestic: This first axis categorizes you based on how much you are drawn to the outdoors, versus how much you are drawn to civilized situations. Domesticity has many shapes and forms, and varies from the joy of dolphins leaping next to a ship to the steadfast loyalty of a family dog.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Gregarious/Solitary: This axis measures how solitary you are. If you scored high, it means that you enjoy the company of other people, while a low score indicates that you prefer a more solitary lifestyle. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Trickster/Serious: This axis measures how well you line up with conventional trickster archetypes. People who fall into this archetype have a sense of humor and an excitable, highly chaotic streak. Scoring low doesn&apos;t mean that you don&apos;t have a sense of humor; it just means that you probably don&apos;t think dynamite is very funny. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Intellectual/Emotional: This last axis determines whether you are more emotional -- acting based on feelings and instinct, or rational and intelectual -- acting more on thought than on your gut feelings. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border=&quot;1&quot;&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;Wild&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Gregarious&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Trickster&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Intellectual&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.okcupid.com:80/tests/describescore?testid=523475376769642040&amp;amp;category=7&quot;&gt;The Hyena&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Wild&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Gregarious&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Trickster&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Emotional&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.okcupid.com:80/tests/describescore?testid=523475376769642040&amp;amp;category=6&quot;&gt;The Otter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Wild&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Gregarious&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Serious&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Intellectual&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.okcupid.com:80/tests/describescore?testid=523475376769642040&amp;amp;category=5&quot;&gt;The Antelope&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Wild&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Gregarious&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Serious&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Emotional&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.okcupid.com:80/tests/describescore?testid=523475376769642040&amp;amp;category=4&quot;&gt;The Wolf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Wild&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Solitary&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Trickster&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Intellectual&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.okcupid.com:80/tests/describescore?testid=523475376769642040&amp;amp;category=3&quot;&gt;The Weasel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Wild&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Solitary&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Trickster&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Emotional&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.okcupid.com:80/tests/describescore?testid=523475376769642040&amp;amp;category=2&quot;&gt;The Coyote&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Wild&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Solitary&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Serious&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Intellectual&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.okcupid.com:80/tests/describescore?testid=523475376769642040&amp;amp;category=1&quot;&gt;The Raven&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;Wild&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Solitary&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Serious&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Emotional&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.okcupid.com:80/tests/describescore?testid=523475376769642040&amp;amp;category=0&quot;&gt;The Frog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Domestic&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Gregarious&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Trickster&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Intellectual&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.okcupid.com:80/tests/describescore?testid=523475376769642040&amp;amp;category=15&quot;&gt;The Fox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Domestic&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Gregarious&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Trickster&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Emotional&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.okcupid.com:80/tests/describescore?testid=523475376769642040&amp;amp;category=14&quot;&gt;The Dolphin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Domestic&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Gregarious&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Serious&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Intellectual&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.okcupid.com:80/tests/describescore?testid=523475376769642040&amp;amp;category=13&quot;&gt;The Horse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;Domestic&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Gregarious&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Serious&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Emotional&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.okcupid.com:80/tests/describescore?testid=523475376769642040&amp;amp;category=12&quot;&gt;The Dog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;Domestic&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Solitary&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Trickster&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Intellectual&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.okcupid.com:80/tests/describescore?testid=523475376769642040&amp;amp;category=11&quot;&gt;The Rat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Domestic&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Solitary&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Trickster&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Emotional&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.okcupid.com:80/tests/describescore?testid=523475376769642040&amp;amp;category=10&quot;&gt;The Ferret&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;Domestic&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Solitary&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Serious&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Intellectual&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.okcupid.com:80/tests/describescore?testid=523475376769642040&amp;amp;category=9&quot;&gt;The Cat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;Domestic&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Solitary&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Serious&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Emotional&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.okcupid.com:80/tests/describescore?testid=523475376769642040&amp;amp;category=8&quot;&gt;The Squirrel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding=&quot;20&quot;&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Link: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.okcupid.com/tests/523475376769642040/Animal-Archetype&quot;&gt;The Animal Archetype Test&lt;/a&gt; written by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.okcupid.com/profile?u=crumpetsfortea&quot;&gt;crumpetsfortea&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.okcupid.com&quot;&gt;OkCupid Free Online Dating&lt;/a&gt;, home of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.okcupid.com/online.dating.persona.test&quot;&gt;The Dating Persona Test&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description>
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